Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...substitute for a goal instead of a means of obtaining a goal." Murray and many other space specialists argue that manned flights should be confined to those missions that require a human presence. Placing satellites into orbit, they argue, rarely requires that astronauts go along on the dangerous ride...
...surface winds of 30 m.p.h.. had aggravated the problem. Chunks of ice floated in water tanks laced with antifreeze. Once aloft on its tragic 73-sec. flight, Challenger was assailed by 75-m.p.h. gales, producing, even before the explosion, what one NASA engineer called "an extremely rough ride, maybe the roughest yet." At sea, ships assigned to recover the $25 million boosters were heading for safe harbors as waves broke over their gunwales. All those facts should have been known by launch officials. Yet Challenger was given...
...nudged him, set out in search of blues players the other day. White, who books acts in Jackson and has a piece of a nightclub and aspires to open a restaurant, is something of a state celebrant; indeed, so sedulous is his enthusiasm for Mississippi that one need only ride along a few short miles listening to him before the bitterweed growing wild on the shoulders of the road begins to look like daisies. "I get homesick when I have to cross a border," White says, and he means...
...Spires, son of Arthur ("Big Boy") Spires, was located in a project called Magnolia Heights, near a cotton hamlet named Flora. White had spoken to Spires on the telephone earlier, and Spires had agreed to ride over to Jack Owens' place and make a little music, asking only that White "bring a lift- up." To that end, bourbon had been laid in, and now as Bud Spires gets into the car, he mentions that he "wouldn't mind a little something to get my nerves on the ready." So Spires settled his nerves, and so did White...
There is probably little chance that the get-tough bill will pass the Senate intact and survive a presidential veto. Its importance is mainly symbolic, showing how the trade issue could become highly politicized this election year. The White House fully expects Democrats to ride it for all it is worth. Says Political Director Mitch Daniels: "They don't have much else at the moment...